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The University of Akron Press
- Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry
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- 2001
- Published by: The University of Akron Press
summary
Today, pollution control regulations define how complex technological systems interact with natural ecosystems and competing human uses of the environment. Redefining Efficiency examines the evolution of this industrial ecology in the United States by tracing numerous pollution concerns associated with the production, transportation, and refining of petroleum over the course of the twentieth century. In doing so, this book demonstrates that a pollution control ethic based on the efficient use of resources emerged early in the century and met with enough success to undermine the first calls for strict government-enforced regulations. Redefining Efficiency also chronicles the failure of this efficiency-based pollution control ethic and its replacement by another. This second ethic required society first to define its environmental objectives and then to institute policies to achieve those objectives. The resulting regulations, by restructuring the economics of pollution control, have since redefined the notion of industrial efficiency.
Table of Contents
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- List of Figures
- pp. ix-x
- List of Tables
- p. xi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-9
- Part I. Early Pollution Concerns and the Direction of Technological Change
- 1. Pollution Concerns Articulated
- pp. 13-33
- 2. Concerns in the Oil Fields
- pp. 34-62
- 3. Keeping Oil in the Pipelines
- pp. 63-88
- 5. What to Do with Tankers?
- pp. 118-133
- Part II. Fighting Pollution Under an Efficiency Ethic
- 6. Validating a Guiding Ethic
- pp. 137-168
- 7. Success and Failure in the Oil Fields
- pp. 169-194
- 9. Creating a Pollution Control Manual
- pp. 215-246
- 10. The Ocean Ignored As Tankers Grow
- pp. 247-266
- Part III. Regulating Industrial Activity to Maintain Environmental Quality
- 11. Crude Awakening
- pp. 269-300
- 12. Redefining Efficiency
- pp. 301-322
- 14. Closing the Loop
- pp. 341-356
- Conclusion
- pp. 357-363
- Bibliography
- pp. 419-439
Additional Information
ISBN
9781935603283
Related ISBN(s)
9781884836756
MARC Record
OCLC
606599050
Pages
451
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No